Funny epitaphs

take everything

Just browsing some of these in google images.

I'm definitely going to have a funny epitaph on my grave after I pass away.
Maybe even a subtle "fcuk you" to all the tonnes of bull**** of life.

Given that life is such a joke, i'm surprised more people don't do this tbh.
Anyone else ever think of putting ridiculous things on their headstone.

#edgy
Yes i'm a bit drunk.

FanadMan

take everything wrote: »

Just browsing some of these in google images.

I'm definitely going to have a funny epitaph on my grave after I pass away.
Maybe even a subtle "fcuk you" to all the tonnes of bull**** of life.

Given that life is such a joke, i'm surprised more people don't do this tbh.
Anyone else ever think of putting ridiculous on their headstone.

#edgy
Yes i'm a bit drunk.

A few examples would be nice......

aaronjumper

FanadMan wrote: »

A few examples would be nice......

Here ya go. That'll be a fiver please.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1360&bih=662&q=funny+epitaphs&oq=funny+ep&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.138.1921.0.3709.8.6.0.2.2.0.121.459.0j4.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..2.6.460.dmPcUg681Nc#imgrc=_

IvyTheTerrible

"I told you I was ill" was Spike Milligan's choice of epitaph but it was considered too irreverent, so AFAIK it had to be put in Irish on the tombstone.

aaronjumper

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

"I told you I was ill" was Spike Milligan's choice of epitaph but it was considered too irreverent, so AFAIK it had to be put in Irish on the tombstone.

Not even allowed decide what is put on your final resting place, what crap.
I doubt there are many complaints though.

Outlaw Pete

aaronjumper wrote: »

Not even allowed decide what is put on your final resting place, what crap.
I doubt there are many complaints though.

Family in-fighting apparently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9670813/Spike-Milligans-gravestone-returned-after-family-feud.html

jcsoulinger

"Don't cry for me, I'm already dead" I always thought would be a good one, A sober Barney says it in The Simpsons.

LordSutch

Paul Weller ...
Some people might say my life is in a rut. Quite happy with what I got, I'm going underground.

just a suggestion, not sure that he's quite dead just yet.

gramar

It's a grave situation.

Your Face

"Distresses me to return soiled"

Peter O Toole wanted that as his epitaph.

corner of hells

"There's no train due now".

Corner.

Kivaro

This is a great topic. Well done OP.

This isn't funny, but when I read these few words it had a serious impact on me. Imagine looking down at this in a graveyard:

"What you are, I once was, what I am, you will be."

It puts 'things' in perspective.

DanMurphy

'Here lies Byron Vickers'
2nd fastest draw in New Austin.

Geo. Spencer.
Feb 15 1894
Feb 15 1909
Lost his life by stab in falling on ink eraser evading six young women trying to give him birthday kisses in office of Metropolitan Life Building.

Unknown
Made some good deals, made some bad ones,
I really went in the hole with this one.


Lawrence Cook Jr.
Ma loves Pa, Pa loves wimmin,
Ma caught Pa with two in swimmin.
Here lies Pa.

Scorpion Sting

This epitaph by a certain Russell James Larsen is very funny.

Two things I love most,
Good horses and beautiful women
And when I die I hope
They tan this old hide of mine
And make it into a ladies riding
Saddle so I can rest in peace
Between the two things I love most.

jimgoose

Played five aces. Now playing the harp.

-- Unknown Gambler, Boot Hill.

Stigura

F**k, Yeah!!! :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yeats has a bad ass one.

The final lines of his poem 'Under Ben Bulben'.

"Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman pass by.

I always took it to mean that if you don't embrace life and live it to the full then on your death you'll be forgotten about instantly. You failed to leave an impression on the world and those around you.

buried

Tread softly on the leaves, for you tread upon my face

ToddyDoody

"Cast a cold Eye

On Life, on Death.

Horseman, pass by!"

(?)

"Post no bills"

indioblack

aaronjumper wrote: »

Here ya go. That'll be a fiver please.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1360&bih=662&q=funny+epitaphs&oq=funny+ep&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.138.1921.0.3709.8.6.0.2.2.0.121.459.0j4.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..2.6.460.dmPcUg681Nc#imgrc=_

Didn't know there were so many - will peruse some more of them when I have time. Found one of my favs already -" Les Moore, shot by a 44, no Les, no more"
Another - "He stood in the way of the Lord - and served him right".

Capt'n Midnight

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Pancho Villa

Patser

There's one I saw up at the Rock of Cashel, always stayed with me (but not particularly funny)

Look at me, Oh Human Child,
As you are now, so once was I,
As I am now, so you will be,
And so remain; eternity.

Esel

Saw this one in Tombstone:

Here lies Les Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les, no more

The sun gives life, and it takes it away
But like all the greats, it'll burn out someday'
She said 'I don't mind, I don't want to get bored
I don't want to end up beached on this shore
I want to be that star'

Rocky took a lover
Bell X1

sligojoek

Here's a pic of an old friend's grave.
Banjo player, Tom "The Beast" McManamon.

Poor Uncle Tom

This will be mine....

"What was left of Tom was put in a box,
All said goodbye and cheers for the kicks,
No tears no sadness, just cheers just gladness,
A life well lived and a body well used,
He skidded in sideways covered in smoke n dust,
with the final words "what a life, what a blast"

Samuel T. Cogley

Cardboard box and a tree for me. Hopefully one day someone will carve the initials of someone they love into it.

That was way too soppy, some sort of dogging joke etc. etc.

Badly Drunk Boy

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

"I told you I was ill" was Spike Milligan's choice of epitaph but it was considered too irreverent, so AFAIK it had to be put in Irish on the tombstone.

From the gravestone wrote:

Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite.

It's the fourth last line on this photo.

GhostyMcGhost

Please delete my browser history...

wfdrun

Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!

Lord Byron, Epigram, 1822

Lady Chatterton

There is a grave in our local cemetery that says - 'Gone Fishing'.